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cord-340921-tg62xw8v	Jee, Youngmee	WHO International Health Regulations Emergency Committee for the COVID-19 outbreak	2020-03-19		.txt	text/plain	1902	85	46	With the commencement of largescale community transmission in European and Middle Eastern countries, the WHO Director-General Ghebreyesus declared COVID-19 a pandemic, based on the speed and scale of spread of the assessment of significant risk of international spread, and impact of the infectious disease on travel or trade. Although the COVID-19 pandemic declaration will not significantly change the responses of the State Parties, it has reaffirmed that the countries vulnerable to this novel infectious disease shall prepare for outbreaks more thoroughly, and WHO shall actively support and collaborate with them to accomplish the same. As mentioned above, PHEIC declaration provides a rationale for WHO to actively cooperate with vulnerable countries with poor public health infrastructure and assist them in preparing for outbreaks of novel infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, and to provide technical guidance and assistance as well as mobilizing international experts for on-site assistance, if necessary.	./cache/cord-340921-tg62xw8v.txt	./txt/cord-340921-tg62xw8v.txt